Research Overview Machine learning applies to any situation where there is data that we are trying to make sense of, and a target function that we cannot mathematically pin down. The spectrum of applications is huge, going from financial forecasting to medical diagnosis to industrial inspection to recommendation systems, to name a few. The field encompasses neural networks, statistical inference, and data mining. List of Research Areas machine learning, learning theory, computational learning, pattern recognition, neural networks, computational finance, probability and statistics Research Centers Social and Information Sciences Laboratory, Center for the Mathematics of Information